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Solidarity Launch Glasgow East Campaign

Solidarity Launch Glasgow East Campaign

Glasgow Solidarity members have selected their candidate for the Glasgow East by-election on 24 July. Tricia McLeish, of the party's Shettleston branch, was appointed unopposed with the unianimous support of the Glasgow region of Scotland's largest socialist party.

Tricia said:"I am honoured to be selected as Solidarity's candidate.

Living in the area and working for the council, I see the results of New Labour's failed agenda first hand. The SNP offer no answers for the people of the East end, just more of the same under a different flag. The East End will not be saved by shopping centes or by a Donald Trump.

We need real jobs and real futures. "Solidarity are AGAINST the renewal of trident, but FOR spending the billions on houses and pensioners instead.

We stand AGAINST the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and FOR the withdrawal of British and all other foreign troops.

Tricia McLeish is a founding member of Solidarity and has been an active socialist for over 20 years. She is 44, and works as a technical officer for Glasgow City Council's Land and Environmantal Services and was a Unison (and previously NALGO) shop steward in the council's housing department for 15 years.

Tricia was born, bred and still lives in Shettleston, the eldest of six children, all of whom still live in the East end of Glasgow, as do her parents.

She was educated at St Andrews in Greenfield. Tricia joined the Labour Party Young Socialists and then Militant in the early 1980's when she was on a youth opportunities scheme and since then has been at the forefront of many political campaigns in Scotland.

After being suspended from the Labour Party for her involvement in the Anti-Poll Tax Federation, she went to be a founder member of The Scottish Socialist Alliance, the Scottish Socialist Party and then Solidarity.

She is a member of the party's National Steering Committee and still an active trade unionist, leading campaigns against privatisation of services, most notably the back-door privatisation of housing stock through the GHA.

For further details or to speak to Solidarity's candidate call Jim Monaghan on 07944 217938
http://www.solidarityscotland.org/

Tricia McLeish - Glasgow East Solidarity Candidate

TRICIA McLEISH, SOLIDARITY

Tricia McLeish, 44, from the party's Shettleston branch, has been an active socialist for more than 20 years.

She was born and lives in Shettleston and was educated at St Andrews in Greenfield.

Ms McLeish works as a technical officer for Glasgow City Council's land and environmental services and was a Unison (and previously Nalgo) shop steward in the council's housing department for 15 years. After being suspended from the Labour Party for her involvement in the Anti-Poll Tax Federation, she went on to become a founder member of the Scottish Socialist Alliance, the Scottish Socialist Party and then Solidarity.

She is a member of the party's national steering committee and has taken a leading role in campaigns against the privatisation of public services.